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Re: Metrics With More That One PMID

To: Dave Brolley <dave.brolley@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Metrics With More That One PMID
From: Ken McDonell <kenj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 25 Feb 2016 09:02:35 +1100
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On 25/02/16 08:21, Ken McDonell wrote:
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I think this demonstrates why the original behaviour was more correct than the 
current behaviour.  Consider this ...

$ pminfo -mf -a archives/pcpcmd pmcd.pmie.configfile
pmcd.pmie.configfile PMID: 2.5.7
     inst [2824710 or "2824710"] value "/var/pcp/pmdas/summary/expr.pmie"

This archive is (somehow) wrong ... the PMID for this metric would appear to have always been 2.5.0.

So a "wrong" archive has exposed a much more interesting issue!

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